August brought a fresh set of improvements to Katmai, focused on refining user experience, upgrading interface features, and smoothing usability friction. As always, our mission is to make virtual meetings and collaboration more intuitive and efficient. Let’s dive into what’s new this month:
Improved Usability for Adding Users: We've made it even easier to add new users to your organization! Now, when entering an email address, our system will automatically detect if it's invalid and provide instant feedback, ensuring that only correct email addresses are added. This improvement streamlines the onboarding process and helps users get started without any confusion.
Refined Guest Pass UI: We’ve introduced several upgrades to the guest pass experience, making it more intuitive than ever:
The time picker now allows smooth scrolling, making it easier to select your desired time.
After creating a future guest pass, the date and time will automatically reset, ensuring you’re always working with current information.
Switching between AM and PM is now seamless, eliminating any potential scheduling errors.
Enhanced Mobile Experience: Navigating Katmai on mobile has become more effortless! We’ve updated the interface so that menus like Avatar Settings and the Guest Pass modal now appear in the right place, ensuring smooth and easy access on smaller screens.
Improved Handling for Weak Connections: For users with weak connections, we’ve made Katmai even more reliable. Connectivity issues are now handled more gracefully, and you’ll no longer encounter endless Skybox loops. Your experience stays fluid, even when the network doesn’t.
USER STORIES & TESTIMONIALS
Parent Projects, an online community and hub for aging family care, uses Katmai to bring efficiency to their teams. Tony Siebers, CEO at Parent Projects:
"Our Parent Projects brand is proud to be early adopters of this workplace marvel, turning 30-minute conversations tomorrow, into 30-second conversations today. We are excited to work with Katmai in bringing virtual meeting concepts into our senior services marketplace, bringing families and communities closer together!"
Cage Free Voices, an innovative tech education company, uses Katmai for everything from classrooms to theater camps. Founder Bathsheba Smithen:
“Accommodations? Where?! Just reimagine education instead. Stop teaching everyone the same way. There isn’t a #typical. We are all #neurologicallydiverse. CFV is partnered with Katmai ❤️”
As always, we continue to listen closely to our users and build a product that helps you connect, collaborate, and create stronger communities—virtually. Stay tuned for more updates next month!
– Dan Kosh, Chief Product Officer @ Katmai